Coulter's take on BMC's decision is that it lacked long-term open systems storage experience, and counted too heavily on leveraging their PATROL storage management knowledge into storage management products such as PSM.

With a history in mainframe channel connectivity products, Luminex's Virtual/BLUE product family bridges the gap between the mainframe enterprise and open systems world, thereby transforming the economics of mainframe storage.

Historically, mainframes and open systems computing environments have been islands of information with relatively slow links between them using file transfer technology over SNA (Systems Network Architecture) and IP data networks.

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